Edell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Edell

The Social Security Administration has registered 249 babies named Edell between 1912 and 1954, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Edell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1954. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Edell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 45 additional births since 1916.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Edell performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 114 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Edell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 24 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Edell in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Edell in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 249 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.